Best of the Fest Award: The Burden (Niki Lindroth Von Bahr, Sweden) A motel, a self-service restaurant, a call centre and a supermarket on the motorway are the setting for this apocalyptic musical. The songs tell of freedom, of the empty promises of the consumer world, and of the desire for an … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017: And the winner is…
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LIAF 2017 Article: Animated Documentaries
International Competition Programme 8: Animated Documentaries screens at Barbican book tickets Animated documentaries, of course, have been around more or less since the dawn of cinema and animation itself. Winsor McCay’s 1914 classic The Sinking Of The Lusitania not only recreated a vividly, … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: Animated Documentaries
LIAF 2017 Article: Into the Dark
International Competition Programme 7: Into the Dark screens at Barbican book tickets Welcome to our annual ghoul-walk of fetid horrors and surging psyche damage. In many ways, this kind of stuff is one of the things that animation does best. The wider perception of cinematic animation is that it … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: Into the Dark
LIAF 2017 Article: Long Shorts
International Competition Programme 5: Long Shorts screens at Barbican book tickets Pulling LIAF together each year is about maths as much as anything else. The average length of all the films submitted for Competition in LIAF this year came in at just under six minutes. And that’s probably about … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: Long Shorts
LIAF 2017 Article: Below the Surface
International Competition Programme 6: Below the Surface screens at Barbican book tickets To turn on the TV or read the paper these days is to wonder where the surface we stand on has gone. News is fuelling this, of course. But what is news these days? News is facts, analysis, conflicting … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: Below the Surface
LIAF 2017 Article: The MADness of Punto y Raya
A sneak-peak article from our annual catalogue on Punto y Raya Festival, featuring an interview with one half of the festival organising powerhouse duo - Noel Palazzo. You can find out more about Noel and Ana Santos (the other half of said mighty duo) at Abstract Art in Motion: The Best of the … [Read more...] about LIAF 2017 Article: The MADness of Punto y Raya
